It's a big weekend for Reba McEntire, who will be hosting the Academy of Country Music Awards for the sixteenth time. She's also just dropped a brand new album called Stronger Than the Truth.
"My goal for this album was to record a stone cold country album," she shares in a statement from her label. "It is the most country album I have ever recorded. It reminds me of My Kind of Country album, because I'd gone to Jimmy Bowen and I said, 'I want to record MY kind of country,' And he said, 'Well what's that?' I said, 'The songs I grew up with, like Merle Haggard, Ray Price, Mel Tillis.' He said, 'Well go find the songs yourself,' and that's what I did with this album.
"I went to look for songs that you can dance to, that are reminiscent of the songs that Pake and Suzy and I did when we were the Singin' McEntires," she continues. "'Cause that's where we played all the time, was rodeo dances, dance halls and you had to have a song that people could dance to, and that's what's on this album."
